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mysqli_field_count

mysqli->field_count()

(PHP 5)

mysqli->field_count() — Returns the number of columns for the most recent query

Description

Procedural style:

int mysqli_field_count ( mysqli $link )

Object oriented style (method):

mysqli_result
int field_count ( void )

Returns the number of columns for the most recent query on the connection represented by the link parameter. This function can be useful when using the mysqli_store_result() function to determine if the query should have produced a non-empty result set or not without knowing the nature of the query.

Parameters

link

Procedural style only: A link identifier returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init()

Return Values

An integer representing the number of fields in a result set.

Examples

Example#1 Object oriented style

<?php
$mysqli 
= new mysqli("localhost""my_user""my_password""test");

$mysqli->query"DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends");
$mysqli->query"CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))");

$mysqli->query"INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut'), (2, 'Ulf')");


$mysqli->real_query($HTTP_POST_VARS['query']);

if (
$mysqli->field_count) {
    
/* this was a select/show or describe query */
    
$result $mysqli->store_result();

    
/* process resultset */
    
$row $result->fetch_row();

    
/* free resultset */
    
$result->close();
}

/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>

Example#2 Procedural style

<?php
$link 
mysqli_connect("localhost""my_user""my_password""test");

mysqli_query($link"DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends");
mysqli_query($link"CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))");

mysqli_query($link"INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut'), (2, 'Ulf')");

mysqli_real_query($link$HTTP_POST_VARS['query']);

if (
mysqli_field_count($link)) {
    
/* this was a select/show or describe query */
    
$result mysqli_store_result($link);

    
/* process resultset */
    
$row mysqli_fetch_row($result);

    
/* free resultset */
    
mysqli_free_result($result);
}

/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?>


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